![]() He is not a morals campaigner, or an anti-gay campaigner, or a person who could justly be accused of public hypocrisy if the allegations turned out to be true. The man concerned is a senior executive in a large company, but he is not a politician or in any other sense a public figure. Still, the damage has been done: there is little we can do ameliorate it, since the post has already been seen by a vast online audience.Īs Yezmin Villarreal accurately describes the Gawker post ( writing at ), it alleges that a named finance executive “tried to hire a gay porn star for sex at a cost of $2,500.” Villareal adds, again accurately, “The story contains screenshots of text messages and photos that allegedly identify the man, who is married to a woman and has children.” That will mean one less direct link between his name and Gawker’s allegations. Though it will have little effect, I likewise won’t name the smeared person. Given the way this news story has gone viral, I cannot protect the name of the individual accused of hiring a gay prostitute, but I can at least do something to minimise adding clicks on Gawker’s site. The link I’ve provided above is not to Gawker’s site, but to an archived copy of the particular post. It brought this on itself by posting a prurient and cruel story about the alleged sexual conduct of a finance executive employed by rival media company Condé Nast. Over the past 24 hours, Gawker, the controversial gossip blog owned by Gawker Media, has earned some extraordinary and entirely justified opprobrium.
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